Plus, while it might make things quite windy, it’s also actually going to bring us some unseasonably hot weather.

Here’s hoping that prediction holds though – otherwise we may be echoing Michael Fish’s famous faux pas from the eve of the 1987 storm.

The Great Storm ravaged the UK with hurricane-force winds between October 15 and 16, 1987, killing 22 people across Britain, France and the Channel Islands.

Around 15 million trees fell during the storm, and buildings and vehicles around the country suffered substantial damage.

A formerly tree-lined avenue in Orpington, Kent, which was devastated by the storm (Picture: PNR)

A wrecked car on a London street which was hit by falling masonry during the hurricane which swept southern England (Picture: Jim Gray/Keystone/Getty Images)

Brighton pavilion after the devastating gales ripped through the protective awnings, put up during restoration work, and blew one of the minarets underneath down – the minaret dropped through the dome into the music room (Picture: Getty Images)

The storm is particularly well-remembered because Michael Fish, a BBC meteorologist, brushed off how severe it would be.